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Noel Gallagher: “This LP could have been my biggest mistake”

Noel Gallagher has been telling Radio X that fans will be surprised by his third solo album, Who Built The Moon?

Speaking to Chris Moyles earlier this week, Gallagher explained that working with producer David Holmes had seen the former Oasis man expand his horizons… but that it took him a long time to get into that headspace.

Having written some songs, Holmes told Gallagher: “The verses are great, but the chorus just sounds like Oasis!”

“And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I know, brilliant, isn’t it!’ He said, ‘Yeah, but we’ve all heard that for the last 25 years, do something different’.”

Noel went on: “There was a long process of, (a) me accepting what he was saying, (b) me thinking to myself, Am I capable of anything different?’

“I would have been first to go, ‘You know, I don’t think it sounds like me, I’m not having it’.”

He went on: “We all want our favourite artist to sound like our favourite artist, because that’s why we love them. If Paul McCartney suddenly goes drum and bass, we’re all going, ‘Really?’ But it depends how much you own it, you know?

“I was fast approaching 50 and I thought this is either gonna be the biggest mistake I’ve ever made, or it’s gonna be great.